University cancels cystic fibrosis fundraiser because disease only affects white men

posted at 5:35 pm on November 25, 2008 by Allahpundit

Cystic fibrosis “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men” said the motion read to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it…

Carleton students have fanned out across the city near the beginning of the school year to raise money to fight the illness for years. But according to the motion read Monday night to student councillors, “all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve the their (sic) diverse communities.”…

“I think they see this, in their own twisted way, as a win for diversity,” said Mr. Bergamini. “I see it as a loss for people with cystic fibrosis.”…

Carleton University Students’ Association president Brittany Smyth said student council has been considering rotating the beneficiary of Shinearama instead of always giving the money to one charity.

The counterargument to this insanity? Noting that CF affects non-white people, too, which means it can be safely fought.

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15 years ago, infanticide was unimaginable and only talked about in the most eccentric corners of universities (should’ve listened to glenn beck and others back then about this …) and now we have a president who supports it.

So should we stop helping those with sickle cell animia because that disease is not inclusive enough? How about Tay-Sachs? Should that get the boot too?

Granted, resourses are limited and you want to place those resources where they will do the most good. How about addressing all serious diseases and focusing objectively adn scientifically on any we can make progress against. Making value choices based on race and gender alone is…well racist and sexist.

I thought Bush gave huge money and resources to AIDS in Africa.
My God, if there are ever bigoted people, it is people on the left.
Good call Brian 1972, you beat me to the post…and there is always Lupus.

What you should do is argue that cystic fibrosis should be stomped out because it’s a discriminatory disease, favoring white males. A disease should not spread based upon the color of one’s skin, but on the strength of one’s immune system.

The strangest part of the story is that it was a journalism student that actually tried to stop this crazy PC fiasco. Maybe we have another Ezra Levant or Mark Steyn on our hands. At any rate, hats off to him – the kid’s got guts.

[T]he motion went on to say that “and whereas cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people and primarily men, be it resolved that: CUSA discontinue its support of this campaign.”

How much money is spent on breast cancer, and how much money is spent on prostate cancer. I really bet that the numbers would show how oppressed women are. The Race for the Cure of Prostate Cancer is a big event around here.

I knew one young woman who died from it at age 24 and I have a female friend who has managed to hang on and is 32. Unfortunately, they are white so, I guess they shouldn’t expect any help from leftards.

There is a reason that Carleton is basically the “last chance U” of the major Canadian schools. Maybe if these losers went to class instead they could get jobs that do not involve harking french fries.

I heard “White the new Jew” somewhere a few months back, and it seems to be coming true.

DFCtomm on November 25, 2008 at 6:27 PM

We’ve been heading in this direction for some time. Look at what has transpired in the UK under New Labor. Electing BO with a super majority of Dems is really the same thing.

Nanny state, over-taxed, big brother hovering over us watching for possible “hate speech” which is always a one-way street. You won’t feel welcome in your own country, or at least what you thought was your country.

How much money is spent on breast cancer, and how much money is spent on prostate cancer. I really bet that the numbers would show how oppressed women are. The Race for the Cure of Prostate Cancer is a big event around here.
thuja on November 25, 2008 at 6:08 PM

Wow… although it’s embarrassing to admit I seriously am a Carleton Graduate… I graduated in 2006 with a Communications Engineering degree and the more that time marches on the more my degree looks like dirt.

Don’t forget the whole abortion fiasco a couple of years ago where the same student council tried to restrict the mandatory student group funding from those that were against abortion. I wrote many letters over that and made it very clear that Carleton will never see another dime from me.

I am proud to say that as a current Texas A&M engineering student I have moved on from Carleton and can distance myself enough to call the school what it really is: CRAP.

Well wishes and prayers to all of those struggling with any life-challenging or threatening disease.

What a shame for these educated fools to stifle good will towards the infirmed by basing aid on race and gender. This is simply pathetic and really makes me kinda sad.

There is no measuring the impact of such stupidity. Am I complicit when I participate in a run for Breast Cancer or a fundraiser or a walk for AIDS? OF COURSE NOT — but some people will invariably respond that way.

What’s worse is that they’ve always been this way. They have a hate on for the Canadian Blood Services simply because one question asks about whether or not you’ve had sex with another man (therefore the people at CBS are raging homophobes). Though being a europhobe isn’t a problem since living in Europe for one year nets you a lifetime ban on donating.

Send your outrage to the president of CUSA, Brittany Smyth, at pres@cusaonline.com (or call 613-520-2600 x1603)

You can also ask Carleton’s new president, Dr. Roseann Runte, if she would have tolerated this kind of crap at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She can be reached at presidents_office@carleton.ca or by telephone at 613-520-3801.

CF victims should be considered a minority. The number of victims falls just under the threshold that’s needed for massive federal funding–which is why the CF Foundation has to work so hard for private funds and be entrepreneurial in their operations.

At some point during the Cold War radical left-wing ideology subtly evolved so that the white man replaced the bourgeois class as the explicit enemy of progressive thinkers. It is very problematic to oppose this new orthodoxy because white males have been traditionally ascendant and technically speaking still are. (Portugal only lost their African colonies in the mid-1970s.)

Perhaps the libertards should just go the full-on eugenics route and determine what percentages of each race they would like to see survive and just withhold all medical treatment from overpopulated groups like whites. Canada has a national health system, they could just determine how many whites need to go and refuse all treatment except birth control and abortion until they reach the target number.

Perhaps the libertards should just go the full-on eugenics route and determine what percentages of each race they would like to see survive and just withhold all medical treatment from overpopulated groups like whites. Canada has a national health system, they could just determine how many whites need to go and refuse all treatment except birth control and abortion until they reach the target number.

Well I wouldn’t expect a full-on eugenics agenda from liberals but the various EU welfare states are set up in a deliberate way to produce a certain outcome. Germans, for example, work and pay exorbitant taxes with the result that many cannot afford to have children. Their taxes subsidise Muslim immigrants (Turks mostly) who don’t work and have lots of children.

Basically the white wage-slaves are not only being replaced en masse in their own countries by people from alien cultures but they are forced to pay for the privilege of doing so. The issue of race (and religion) is far too sensitive to call into question so most everyone is too scared to object to these large-scale population replacements.

For anyone who is offended by the way I have expressed the above views allow me to put it in a way that will clarify the issue without any possibility of causing offense.

Imagine if the US government allowed millions of native Frenchmen to immigrate to America and proclaimed it was insensitive that they be asked to speak English and that they had the right to not only go on speaking French but to parade around insulting Yankee culture within America’s borders.

Then imagine all your tax dollars had to go towards subsiding the French immigrant community so they could spend all their time promoting ‘superior’ French culture and lounging around in art galleries. Would that seem fair?

We are heading down this path and it worries me. I was raised to judge others by the content of their character, and I am floored at the bigotry aimed at men, whites and Christians with extreme vitrol for those who won the WCM trifecta.

I wouldn’t have been horrified if the school had decided that it’s efforts were so successful that perhaps they could add an additional fundraiser to help others in need (maybe sickle cell or Tay Sacs).

The natural result of letting “good willed individuals” make decisions about who gets health care and who doesn’t. It’s also a nice little forecast of the kind of debates they have in Britain and Australia: whether smokers or overweight people or meat-eaters should get the government health care that socialist governments have established as the *only* source of care.

Well I wouldn’t expect a full-on eugenics agenda from liberals but the various EU welfare states are set up in a deliberate way to produce a certain outcome
aengus on November 25, 2008 at 8:24 PM

Imagine if the US government allowed millions of native Frenchmen to immigrate to America and proclaimed it was insensitive that they be asked to speak English and that they had the right to not only go on speaking French but to parade around insulting Yankee culture within America’s borders.
aengus on November 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM

Germans, for example, work and pay exorbitant taxes with the result that many cannot afford to have children. Their taxes subsidise Muslim immigrants (Turks mostly) who don’t work and have lots of children.

State sponsored suicide.

Of course to suggest better border enforcement here is racist and bigoted, by the lights of liberal thinkers (not to mention W. and McCain.)